An appeals court has recently upheld a ruling that allowed civil lawsuits to move forward against a former Broward County sheriff’s deputy and school-resource officer.
Scot Peterson was accused of failing to properly respond during the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty members were killed.
A judge rejected Peterson’s argument that a circuit judge should have granted what’s called a summary judgment in his favor. That would have ended the lawsuits and averted a potential trial…